On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 15:44 +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Hi, > > Here's a series of patches which gets the ball rolling on adding > > a -netdev option. > >... > > The idea is to de-emphasise the vlan support, and instead make > > a nic directly connected to a host backend the default and recommended > > configuration. We want this because it is only with this configuration > > that we feasibly add optimizations like GSO support or vhost-net. > > If we're going to introduce point-point connections then IMO everything > should > be a point-point connection. Having separate point-point and multiple-peer > cases is just going to come back and bite us later. > > Once you have a symmetric point-point API, negotiation of features (such as > offload, filtering, etc) should be relatively straightforward. Device > creation and port connection should be separate events, with feature > negotiation occurring at connection. This gives you hotplug for free, and > avoids ordering issues. vlan functionality is implemented via a fairly > trivial hub device that has many ports and doesn't implement any of the fancy > optional features.
Yep, that's roughly the plan. Cheers, Mark.
